Noah's Ark Found

[pastorkevin73]

I came across this site today. Ron Wyatt claims that he has found Noah's Ark. There is some evidence that this could be the Ark. I'm not willing to say that this definitely is the ark, as of yet, but it is a possibility.

A side question: Does anyone know anything about Ron Wyatt? He also claims to have found where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. The photos do seem to point to where the Isrealites crossed. I found the above link to be an interesting site.

Edit: Please see post #10.

 

[Moonlight Lady]

I saw a documentary on this guy about two months ago. Didn't catch the whole thing....just the last 20 minutes or so, but it was quite interesting.

I've since tried to get more info, but I haven't been able to.....so if anyone has any related links it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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[The Lady Kate]

I came across this site today. Ron Wyatt claims that he has found Noah's Ark. There is some evidence that this could be the Ark. I'm not willing to say that this definitely is the ark, as of yet, but it is a possibility.

A side question: Does anyone know anything about Ron Wyatt? He also claims to have found where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. The photos do seem to point to where the Isrealites crossed. I found the above link to be an interesting site.

Wyatt's also claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant... even though Indiana Jones beat him to it.

Among his other discoveries, Wyatt claimed to have found Noah's Ark, the Red Sea crossing, and the Ark of the Covenant... as well as the locations of Sodom and Gomorrah, the original Ten Commandments, and the actual exact location of the crucifixion... among other things.

Feel free to Google him, but to say the least, he's not considered very credibile in archeological circles.

 

[Mallon]

This is, like, the seventh time the ark has supposedly been found.
I think you will find most folks, including AiG, don't hold Wyatt in high esteem. His claims to discovering nearly every significant artifact/setting in the Bible are dismissed by nearly everyone.

 

[busterdog]

Try googling Bob Cornuke. Cornuke tracked the route of Moses accross the Red Sea to Jabez El Lawz in Saudia Arabia (ie, Midian, not Sinai, like the Bible said). Some good evidence for the proposition that he got that one right.

Cornuke also went into the "Mountains of Ararat" within the last year or two and found evidence of the ark. I think he was actually in Iran. Can't remember. Cornuke seems a decent chap. Somebody big went with him too, like Josh McDowel or someone like that.

http://www.baseinstitute.org/

 

[pgp_protector]

They found it ?

Again ?

 

[pgp_protector]

It would surprise me if the Ark would even survive this long without rotting.

 

[Moonlight Lady]

They found it ?

Again ?

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[Tinkerbell33]

It would surprise me if the Ark would even survive this long without rotting.

yeah i think it would have rotted by now

 

[pastorkevin73]

Please disregard my op. Upon a little research I have found Ron Wyatt to be a fraud. Apparently even AiG make this claim about Wyatt (as Mallon points out).

 

[jameseb]

yeah i think it would have rotted by now

I'm highly skeptical (okay, I don't believe he really found any of those items, though I'm sure he believes he did) regarding anything stated by Wyatt, however....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070412-dino-tissues.html

T-rex soft tissue has been found which is supposedly 68-million-years-old so anything is obviously possible. After all, we do know that wood can petrify.

 

[pgp_protector]

I'm highly skeptical (okay, I don't believe he really found any of those items, though I'm sure he believes he did) regarding anything stated by Wyatt, however....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070412-dino-tissues.html

T-rex soft tissue has been found which is supposedly 68-million-years-old so anything is obviously possible. After all, we do know that wood can petrify.

While yes wood can petrify, but after a year long flood , the Ark was the only available wood source for Fire, Shelter, Building that would of been available quickly.

 

[HumbleUnderdog]

I don't trust in anyone who believes that they found the Ark. It would have gotten mass media attention and the whole world and every scholar would be talking about it....and the ark more than likely burned down along with the temple in 70AD.

 

[ContentInHim]

Please disregard my op. Upon a little research I have found Ron Wyatt to be a fraud. Apparently even AiG make this claim about Wyatt (as Mallon points out).

The Internet hates Ron Wyatt. There are like 2 sites that believe him. He was blessed when he figured out where Mt. Sinai was - looks like he was correct. But the main reason for this post is that Ron Wyatt is dead and won't be doing any more exploring!

 

[ContentInHim]

Try googling Bob Cornuke. Cornuke tracked the route of Moses accross the Red Sea to Jabez El Lawz in Saudia Arabia (ie, Midian, not Sinai, like the Bible said). Some good evidence for the proposition that he got that one right.

Cornuke also went into the "Mountains of Ararat" within the last year or two and found evidence of the ark. I think he was actually in Iran. Can't remember. Cornuke seems a decent chap. Somebody big went with him too, like Josh McDowel or someone like that.

http://www.baseinstitute.org/

I read a Simon&Schuster book this winter about Bob Cornuke and the expedition he went on to explore Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia. Seems he took his OT and another guy brought the money and he returned from that trip a born-again believer! His is a wonderful story!

 

[archaeologist]

Please disregard my op. Upon a little research I have found Ron Wyatt to be a fraud

1. ron wyatt is deceased, he died a few years ago but his family is keeping his museum running or have been

2. he was a 7th day adventist who had no professional training & no archaeological experience.

3. he was an anesthesiaologist (sp) nurse and he was certainly greatly misguided.

4. he did no real digging and his finds were results of delusion not fact.

enough bad things cannot be said about wyatt and his destructive work.

this does not mean that christians need to follow the thinking of secular people like william dever or israel finkelstein, but need to take care that they do their work carefully and correctly. people like wyatt abound and make a mess of the levant.

The Internet hates Ron Wyatt

it isn't just the internet andi missed your comment on his passing.

 

[FallingWaters]

I don't trust in anyone who believes that they found the Ark. It would have gotten mass media attention and the whole world and every scholar would be talking about it....and the ark more than likely burned down along with the temple in 70AD.

It seems like you might be referring to the Ark of the Covenant.

The OP was about Noah's Ark.

 

[Uphill Battle]

I'm highly skeptical (okay, I don't believe he really found any of those items, though I'm sure he believes he did) regarding anything stated by Wyatt, however....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070412-dino-tissues.html

T-rex soft tissue has been found which is supposedly 68-million-years-old so anything is obviously possible. After all, we do know that wood can petrify.

supposedly being the key word.

 

[Biblewriter]

I read some of Ron Wyatt's works a few years ago. He claimed that the Turkish government has officially recognized his site as the site where Noah's ark landed. So I called the Turkish embassy and asked them.

They confirmed that the Turkish government has officially recognized the site described by Ron Wyatt as the site where Noah's Ark landed.

By the way, Ron never claimed to have discovered this site. It was originally noticed in an aerial photograph by a mapmaker working for the Turkish government. Ron noticed a newspaper account of the observation and went there to investigate. His book included photographs of laminated wooden beams joined with Iron rivets. I believe these were one of the main pieces of evidence that convinced the Turkish government it was real. According to the embassy, they have built a visitor center there.

A recent film produced by the Moody Bible Institute concludes the same site for the red sea crossing as Ron Wyatt, from the same evidence he presented. This evidence included numerous photographs of undersea objects that appeared to be chariot wheels. When I saw the film, I was disappointed that Moody did not credit him with the discovery. I obtained a British nautical chart of the Red Sea waters, and it showed a (relatively) shallow sand bar crossing the Red Sea at the very site where Ron claimed it was located. That was one of facts that led Ron to think this was the site.

The many photographs Ron presented of his Sodom and Gomorrah site certainly look like buildings to me. They are covered with pock-mark like geodes. Ron's video showed him breaking one of these geodes open, to find it filled with sulfur. When he lit the sulfur, it melted into the rock and put itself out with molten rock, making a new geode.

In view of these facts, I feel that at least some of his claimed discoveries are real, although I admit that some of them seem to be real whoppers. This should not be viewed as an endorsement of Ron Wyatt, but rather as a caution on disparaging him too strongly. I suspect that some of the negative reaction to his claims is based on the fact that archeologists think that they have disproved many of the claims made by the Bible.

 

[archaeologist]

but rather as a caution on disparaging him too strongly. I suspect that some of the negative reaction to his claims is based on the fact that archeologists think that they have disproved many of the claims made by the Bible.

i will disagree with you on both counts here. his claims are not based upon actual digging, experience nor credible research. archaeologists have not disproved any claim of the Bible as far as i know. they have made conclusions based upon limited data and presumption and remember dating is very subjective in this field which means that if a person doesn't like the biblical accounts, they can change the dates to make the Bible look foolish.

the site of noah's ark is based upon certain claims but we do not know if Noah used iron in his construction, considering that the iron age was long after his time. now granted, the pre-flood civilization could have been extremely advanced but we will never know for sure.

just because the turkish gov. built a visitors center or that moody made a film does it validate the evidence. as far as i know, the egyptian gov. will not allow any of the chariot wheels to be dated, let alone brought up.

i have heard about them but nothing significant. again, sulfer in the ground does not mean that is the site of sodom and gomorrah

here is a good article on his finds:

http://www.noahsarksearch.com/ronwyatt.htm

or this one:

http://www.bibleandscience.com/otherviews/wyatt.htm